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Congrats to Jérémy Koering , winner of the the 2022 Pierre Daix Prize for a work devoted to modern and contemporary art history, awarded to his book ICONOPHAGES: A HISTORY OF IMAGE INGESTION. Forthcoming in English from Zone next year!
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"'Preexisting conditions' is a phrase taken from the American 'healthcare industry,' which seeks to amortize the past by refusing 'coverage' to persons for previously existing illnesses... The interconnectedness of events and circumstances across time is why the temptation to isolate the plague as a subject or object of investigation must be resisted."
From PREEXISTING CONDITIONS: RECOUNTING THE PLAGUE by Samuel Weber.
"As venerable music theorists Daniel K. L. Chua and Alexander Rehding map out in their recent book Alien Listening: Voyager’s Golden Record and Music from Earth scientific and popular consensus during the Space Race held music to be an obvious manifestation of humanity’s power to reach across the abyss of otherness. Their book is partly a history of the Golden Record itself, and partly an experiment in defining how a music theorist today might go about reasserting something like Sagan’s optimistic appeal to universality."
ALIEN LISTENING reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Patrick Valiquet responds to music theory’s close encounter with speculative realism in “Alien Listening: Voyager’s Golden Record and Music from Earth” by Daniel K. L. Chua and Alexander Rehding....
"In the context of the menagerie, most of the 'exotic' animals were colorfully and morphologically marked exemplars of domestic species."
Behold the "exotic chicken," from 1668: THE YEAR OF THE ANIMAL IN FRANCE by Peter Sahlins 🦃🍁
"When monuments were too costly to build, revolutionary artists turned to imagery...David's 'Death of Marat' can be seen as an aborted monument: the great man with the pen or scroll, the fallen body, the coffinlike bath."
Andrew Shanken, THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF MEMORIALS
"In the experience of plagues, individual and collective, historical and actual, intentional and unintentional forces converge to reveal how cultures and societies deal with their vulnerability and mortality."
Samuel Weber, PREEXISTING CONDITIONS: RECOUNTING THE PLAGUE.
"Space was off-limits. The only hope for survival lay in Time."
Chris Marker's LA JETÉE: CINÉ-ROMAN
"Here is an extraordinary book: a beautifully designed and politically consequential geography of power. Vision from space goes far deeper here than merely contemplating the earth from above."
Peter Galison on Laura Kurgan's CLOSE UP AT A DISTANCE: MAPPING, TECHNOLOGY & POLITICS. Out this week in paperback!
"In Absentees, conceptual focus is turned upon the canceled human, here considered across a set of archives much broader than just philosophy... it invites its audience into all kinds of improbable corners of culture."
Daniel Heller-Roazen's ABSENTEES: ON VARIOUSLY MISSING PERSONS reviewed in Modern Philology.
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"In the darkness of the vault, astounded audiences perceived the resulting magnification as a terrifying approach of the projected figure... Robertson's spirit shows aimed for the production of dread by staging illusions that could be recognized as produced by smoke and mirrors, but nonetheless exerted a powerful bodily effect on its observers."
Phantasmagorias in GHOSTLY APPARITIONS by Stefan Andriopoulos. 🎃
"The first thing that strikes someone studying the history of 'plagues'—a history that seems to be coextensive with the writing of history itself—is how different what came to be known as 'the plague' was from the pandemic that emerged in Wuhan, China."
From PREEXISTING CONDITIONS: RECOUNTING THE PLAGUE by Samuel Weber.
Now up in Lapham's Quarterly, see here for an excerpt from THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF MEMORIALS by Andrew Shanken.
On “all wars” memorials.
"Much of the historical analysis of neoliberalism, both its ideological roots and its outcomes, has focused on U.S. and Europe… however, MARKET CIVILIZATIONS focuses on the way that neoliberalism 'went local' in the Global South and Eastern Europe."
MARKET CIVILIZATIONS (eds. Quinn Slobodian & Dieter Plehwe) excerpted in ProMarket.
Much of the historical analysis of neoliberalism, both its ideological roots and its outcomes, has focused on U.S. and Europe, with figures such as Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek taking center stage. Neoliberalism, however, was not uniform in its evolution globally. An excerpt from Market Civi...
"Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. Later on they do claim remembrance when they show their scars. That face he had seen was to be the only peacetime image to survive the war. Had he really seen it? Or had he invented that tender moment to prop up the madness to come?"
Chris Marker's LA JETÉE: CINÉ-ROMAN
"Memory, whatever the term may mean in this collective, public sense, is the interloper, the foreign substance, in modern cities, in modern times. Memory is the uninvited guest as we wolf down fast food, throw ourselves into the flow of work and consumption, or take our keen distance."
From Andrew Shanken's THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF MEMORIALS
Image: The Shoa as dark kitsch. Ken Treister, Holocaust Memorial, 1990, Miami Beach, Florida. Photograph by the author.
"Unlike catastrophes such as tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and astral collisions, the emergence and evolution of plagues respond not just to natural causes but to preexisting social conditions."
PREEXISITING CONDITIONS: RECOUNTING THE PLAGUE
by Samuel Weber
Many are the losses suffered and lives lost during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2020, writers around the globe have penned essays and books that make...
"With the increased prevalence of oversimple glosses on the birth and death of neoliberalism, the publication of Market Civilizations, an edited collection from historian Quinn Slobodian and political scientist Dieter Plehwe, is welcome. In its treatment of 'neoliberals east and south,' the book shows how neoliberalism interacts with and within other historical dynamics."
MARKET CIVILIZATIONS: NEOLIBERALS EAST AND SOUTH reviewed in JACOBIN.
Recent announcements of neoliberalism’s demise in the wake of the pandemic are mistaken. Ending neoliberalism will require purposeful effort and struggle, not just economic and political crises.
Presenting Zone's latest fall title: THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF MEMORIALS by Andrew M. Shanken. Out today!
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Zone is excited to present our latest fall release: PREEXISTING CONDITIONS: RECOUNTING THE PLAGUE by Samuel Weber. Out today in the US!
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"The West was an important point of reference for the Russian neoliberals...for some, political systems were cherished ideals. Western neoliberalism, however, offered little advice on how to accomplish a transformation to a Western 'market society.'"
Tobias Rupprecht, MARKET CIVILIZATIONS
We are excited to be tabling at the Brooklyn Book Festival next week. Come stop by Zone's booth on festival day! Saturday, October 2nd from 10am-6pm in Cadman Plaza!
Tomorrow 9/20 at 7:30pm EST, join Andrew Shanken, author of THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF MEMORIALS for a virtual discussion with Paul Farber. Register below!
Architecture scholar Andrew Shanken discusses his new book, "The Everyday Life of Memorials," with Paul Farber, director of Monument Lab. Virtual only.
"Literature gives us history in words... It initiates us into the meaning world of people who are not us, living in different spaces and times."
Timothy Hampton from CHEERFULNESS: A LITERARY AND CULTURAL HISTORY.
"The future was better protected than the past. He went through a brand new planet, Paris rebuilt, ten thousand incomprehensible avenues. Others were waiting for him. It was a brief encounter."
Chris Marker's LA JETÉE: CINÉ-ROMAN
"Arrived in the dark. The dark takes us back to the foundation, the origin."
—Henri Michaux
Epigraph to Maria Stavrinaki's TRANSFIXED BY PREHISTORY: AN INQUIRY INTO MODERN ART AND TIME (tr. Marie Jane Todd).
Just landed from the printer, first sample copies of two forthcoming fall titles:
THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF MEMORIALS by Andrew Shanken FRANCISCO DE GOYA AND THE ART OF CRITIQUE by Anthony Cascardi
Coming later this September and November!
"The tide of neoliberalism that swept the globe from the late 1970s onward transformed planned and mixed economies profoundly. The quintessentially neoliberal shock therapy of this period, however, has an antecedent a generation earlier."
Isabella M. Weber in MARKET CIVILIZATIONS.
First sample copies of Samuel Weber's PREEXISTING CONDITIONS: RECOUNTING THE PLAGUE.
Out later this month!
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"Who said that prehistoric women had vanished forever? In interpreting the statuettes literally, disregarding the gap between art and nature, Piette removed from them any fictional dimension, which was sacrificed to the insatiable need to reconstruct the bodies of these strangers, prehistoric men and women."
Maria Stavrinaki on Édouard Piette in TRANSFIXED BY PREHISTORY http://ow.ly/lTLT50Kx0t6
“I felt most guided by Preciado’s reading that furniture is just objects in the setting of our dark and formative experiences. It plays this shadow-self role.”
Fi Isidore on Paul Preciado's PORNOTOPIA and "Psychosexual Furniture."
Plus a new documentary on the global fight for safe streets.
The new Zone catalog has just landed from the printer! Check it out to learn more about our new and forthcoming titles for this coming fall and spring!
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Our friends at Unnameable books displaying some of the latest Zone titles. It's always a great place to find our books if you're in Brooklyn. Check out their new location just down the street from their old spot on Vanderbilt Ave!
The Small Press Flea is tomorrow! Come stop by! Sad dogs who wish they could be hanging out at our table just beyond reach in the background welcome. It looks to be a beautiful day! 10am-4pm at Grand Army Plaza!
This Saturday from 10am-4pm at the Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn Public Library! Join us for a day of book slinging alongside all these great presses at BOMB Magazine's Small Press Flea!
"On this particular Sunday, the child whose story we are telling was bound to remember the frozen sun, the setting at the end of the jetty, and a woman's face."
Chris Marker's LA JETÉE
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Join us on August 20th for the Small Press Flea! 10am-4pm at the Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn Public Library!
Sponsored by The Social and Brooklyn Public Library
"Cheerfulness, Hampton says, is a tool we can use to cope with the instability all around us, from the state of the economy to the war in Ukraine."
Timothy Hampton's CHEERFULNESS reviewed in the Observer Magazine.
Cheerfulness can boost your energy levels, even in tough times – as philosophers and writers have long recognised, writes Donna Ferguson
"Turkey occupies a relatively unusual place in the wider global political economy. The binary of Global South versus Global North is uneasy for Turkey, because it shares features of both."
Esra Elif Nartok on Neoliberalism in Turkey, from MARKET CIVILIZATIONS: NEOLIBERALS EAST & SOUTH.
http://ow.ly/UyMq50KbXzl
"We are transfixed by prehistory, in its grasp, because we feel its irreducible ambiguity, likely to signify the fear of the end as much as the hope of the beginning."
Maria Stavrinaki, TRANSFIXED BY PREHISTORY
Image: Pétographie (Dove Allouche)
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